Dr. Crone studies plant and animal interactions at the intersection of theoretical ecology and natural history: How do our observations inform theory, and how can theory inform an understanding of the natural world? Many aspects of answering these questions involve advances in statistics. Her current projects include: studying the causes and consequences of mast-seeding in plants; the effect of mast-seeding on the plants' consumers; determining the effects of climate and land use change on butterfly populations; bumble bee demography in relation to food resources; and investigating the consequences of different forms of variance on plant population dynamics.